cadre an attorney for the center of constitutional rights notes the government's drone killing program is built on gross distortions of law this forced transparency comes years late long after the memo was drafted and used to justify the premeditated killing of a us citizen without trial and far from any battlefield but hey laws are meant to be broken even if it means completely dismantling over three hundred years of habeas corpus and let's break the. law. it was a really very hard to take that lead. to. better act with the terror threat there.

it's no secret that this country has a problem trigger happy cops when you think of high crime cities chicago or new york might come to mind but not albuquerque new mexico well shockingly this city is among the worst when it comes to the epidemic of police brutality since two thousand and ten albuquerque p.d.'s been responsible for the shootings of at least forty individuals twenty six of which have died over the last few years the rampant killings at the hands of officers have led to increased scrutiny so much so that even department of justice launched a sixteen month investigation into the killing spree the d.o.j. found that albuquerque police officers frequently react aggressively in minute.

threat situations in order to justify the use of deadly force officers used tasers and other less than lethal force on people will possibly resist or are of minimal threat officers also to frequently use a higher level force against people in distress or the mentally ill in fact these findings were released in the wake of the controversial execution of james boyd a mentally unstable on armed homeless man who shot in the back by city officers. have to bring the following video is disturbing. after hours of negotiation. by heavily armed off. a flash grenade boy turns his back police open fire three shots as he gasped for breath. police sic a dog on his leg. they fired it is arms. handcuffed him as you hear the thirty eight year old man slowly wheezing.

boyd. a boy died shortly after the incident and as unbelievable as the shooting may seem the b.o.j. is report on the albuquerque petey's use of excessive force as bear slap on the wrist to this day there's been no accountability for boyd's killing or other unprovoked executions and after months of frustration over the weekend hundreds of protesters descended on roosevelt park in albuquerque to protest the city's rampant and unaccountable police violence during the march protesters held up makeshift coffins at the names of deceased victims and even put the city's police chief in a mock trial calling them out for failing to quell the abuse the last demonstration against apartment was ironically met with tear gas reinforcing the protesters whole point and to make matters worse during this weekend's demonstration the police department sent an undercover officer to infiltrate and videotape the demonstrators

and get this that same cop whose name was on his clothes was also involved in the shooting of a twenty year new mexico resident in two thousand and ten according to local station k r q e who identified the officer he wore a tie dyed t. shirt long hair brushed back out of his eyes dark sunglasses and a lengthy beard yeah man because police abuse only affects disheveled hippies but you know soon these riot cops will need to worry about being called out at all because robots will be doing their dirty work yes that's right the south african company desert wolf is now finally orders for a disturbing machine called the skunk riot control copter the drone is equipped with four high capacity paintball guns to high definition cameras and a thermal camera for night vision along with paint balls the guns can be filled with plastic bullets or. pepper spray pellets and according the makers of the drone it can fire up to eighty projectiles per second wow these terrifying u.a.

views are expected to be in the air within the next month and defense web reports that desert wolf will be delivering at least twenty five of them to the mining industry companies to deal with unruly protests and employees listen if we can't trust police officers to use force responsibly and person and how can we expect them not to abuse their power when controlling these skynet as machines because when police are allowed to crackdown on dissent by playing real life video games human accountability disappears at the rate that this country's military and its police these riot drones could be a reality here soon elevating our police problem to the stoep in levels. drugs that make their way into the u.s. follow the simple rule of supply and demand that no matter how many resources the

u.s. pours to fight the drug war are caught extract figures will always find a way to meet the demand alone u.s. agencies seized almost two point five million pounds of marijuana and almost four thousand pounds of cocaine along the mexican border but as the government pursues new measures to strengthen the border and ramp up counter narcotics programs traffickers are really getting bolder in their smuggling tactics so down they go for the craziest and most ingenious ways drugs are making their way into this country beauty as producer man will rappel what's up and nice haircut. for the world of the world cup you're getting manic look at the look at all. so let's talk about how insane these tactics are even to just getting crazier and crazier catapult and marijuana cannons yeah for sure you know like you said these traffickers drug smugglers are only getting bolder so we've got catapults that are shooting drugs i think we have v. you of one of these in arizona you're watching right now it's smugglers using a catapult to shoot marijuana over there over the border and i mean they're using

catapults are using slingshots like you mentioned the marijuana can and that's another kind of ridiculous invention that they've made but again very cost effective and effective at the end of the day these cannons can shoot projectiles that way as much as thirteen kilograms of a wide distance and the reason they haven't caught on to these cannons is because they were finding project out in the good like where the hell is this coming from and then they find out you know they're making them out of plastic tubes with improvised air compressors years here's a picture of one here right now and they're very easy to make it in the hope this isn't a how to guide. for drugs i don't know i mean ok let's talk about something even crazier which is actually building to build the actual ramps for trucks to go over the border right why does these guys figured out that it's a lot cheaper to go over the fence and under because we heard about all these tunnels with the fast and furious case and all these cells between the u.s.

and mexico they're actually i mean this is just this just goes to show like this is a feat of engineering and these guys are welding different patients metal things together in two thousand and twelve they actually caught a bunch of guys left a jeep grand cherokee teetering on top of the fence because i mean something not always effective it's just you know going to that's going to make people be like let's just build the fence higher you know it's not only the solution you're better for the illusion of being a bigger event this is now we're getting crazy here cloning vs talk about this shit well this is actually more of a a recent trend that we're seeing in texas alone they've cloned already about fifteen of these vehicle sees ten tons of marijuana have been recovered from these vehicles i mean you can't tell a clone vehicle apart from a regular vehicle it could look like an ambulance it could look like a fire truck it could look like a police vehicle a border patrol vehicle that down to the decals they're able to replicate these vehicles and. they're very hard to spot and when you do i mean it's usually a payload of drugs like i said ten tons of marijuana were seized over the last few

years in texas alone and this is going on all over the place i mean you're able to drive across the border because you look at official you look legit again i hope this isn't how some died already but eternally a lot of people in a vehicle are a cocaine submarine what just. no i mean this is a huge leap in technology for drug smugglers i'm from honduras originally and you know it's a huge narco state really a lot of smugglers coming in and out of that country they're taking these submersibles that are able to carry tons of of drugs whether it be cocaine or narcotics or whatever an entire crew they have periscopes with cameras on them these are home made i mean what we're talking about is that the u.s. is using. their own technology and then you come to find out that you know the smugglers are just using the same technology against him but it's homemade it's very innovative it was estimated in two thousand and nine that seventy percent of cocaine leaving the pacific coast of colombia was leaving through these these

submersibles or or part submersibles or completely submersible vehicle and there is that you know and the drone drone war is now of course. and ingenuity is spreading to actually creating drones manning i mean we're pretty the u.s. is patrolling the mexico u.s. border using drones what why can't the smugglers use the same thing right i mean as long as we continue this policy the of of perpetuating the drug war there will always be there will be drug smugglers and traffickers will always find a way to get these things across and drones are using in the small scale right now we've seen reports in canada where they're smuggling drugs into prison using like the small two hundred dollar drone that you can buy and it comes on again this is not a how to guide can't stress that it up wife but i think i think you're absolutely right i mean this is basically the drug wars such a failed policy it's failed time and time again it doesn't halt the use of drugs it doesn't halt the supply and demand. it's really about the decriminalization manny and really what this shows is that people will stop at nothing to get those drugs

over the border and really we need to get at the crux of the issue and in the drug war once and for all absolutely the more you have the will be more violence will be more refugees will be more immigration until you fix start speaking of something from honduras most violent country in a world that really is stems back from all this thanks so much money it's about president of the world cup coming up i'll speak of middle eastern expert phyllis bennis about the one good thing that could potentially come out of a crisis in iraq stay tuned. for injury nucci once said that the best weapon against an enemy is another enemy but when your enemy is expensive oil well welcome to america's middle east policy where everyone is either an enemy or a friend enemy. right on the street. first street. and i think that you're.

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extinguish the fire in the country and u.s. secretary of state john kerry agrees stating that cooperation with the iran is not off the table when it comes to tackling the crisis but it's not just about iran and us syria israel and saudi arabia all have a huge stake in the power play unfolding in the middle east every wrong move could set off a dangerous chain reaction or earlier i spoke to phyllis bennis middle east expert at the institute for policy studies i first asked her why iraq and syria are so intertwined when it comes to what's happening on the ground. when i think it has to do with a couple of things certainly there's the shia connection these are both predominantly shia country countries and the governments are shia oriented they share enemies who how they define enemies but it's also a question of the political positioning of the various countries you know you have a situation where syria has positioned itself historically although it didn't really play the role that positioned itself as the arc of resistance as the

resistance force in the region it didn't really play that well that united with the united states to go to war against iraq it attacked the palestinians you know so there's a terrible history of syria in collaboration with imperialist forces in the region but it has that reputation and claims it and of course iran wants to be part of that. it's a challenge partly between iran and saudi arabia that's been that's one of the six wars in syria that's being fought to the last syria so you have a scenario where iran is threatened by the rise of saudi arabia as a potential regional power allied with the united states the saudis are very opposed to iran even more than israel in some ways so that brings a new alliance between iraq and. syria and iran and syria you know there's a lot of power players here we keep hearing about isis the islamic republic of iraq

and are serious can you call us understand exactly what this group is i know that they're calling for a state in iraq and syria what would that mean and also do you think that it's almost being overblown in terms of the threat of just ice is being used to kind of lump in all the militants there absolutely to take the second question first this is definitely not just about isis isis is a very violent very extreme sunni militia and their version of what and islamic state would look like is pretty terrifying it's their version of sharia law is even beyond what the saudi extremists version looks like i mean it's a really aggressive and violent sect and a cult in a sense but they have not been the ones who by themselves have managed to take cities and hold territory the size of indiana as we're hearing the reason that they look so successful is that they have one to their position which is the anti-government position in iraq opposing the government of nouri al maliki backed

jointly by the u.s. and iran in that in that context a lot of anti maliki anti-government people and forces in iraq have allied themselves with the i.s.i. as the isis because they see that as a lesser danger it's kind of creepy to think about it on a certain level but these are for example the people who have. sort of occupy protest movement in the city of ramadi that was brutally suppressed last december and it was overrun many people were hurt very badly by the soldiers and police of the national army and they are completely opposed to the government in baghdad they wanted a new government so some of them were willing to ally with isis you have the old sunni tribal leaders who had fought against the united states until during the so-called surge in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven the u.s. bought them off you know bribe them essentially to fight with the u.s. instead of against the u.s. they're now fighting with isis you know you have the old bathurst forces that never

ended being bathurst militants of one sort or another some of them that were from the army some of them that were from the government under saddam hussein who have been biding their time waiting for a way to challenge this shia led government that has isolated sunni's you know in the in the army now the national army of iraq is essentially one more shia militia it just has better arms and better uniforms because the u.s. applies them but it's no more a national army than any other it's one more militia representing the interests of one sect so you have all of those various forces that are fighting together with isis who are well trained well armed and scary all of them together are now challenging the army and the government of nouri al maliki right now i'm glad that you just broke down because i think it's important to not paint this with a broad brush and understand that they are actually filling a void that a lot of our seeking john kerry recently said that go shooting with iran is not off

the table in order to deal with iraq what common interest is the u.s. any wrong share in terms of dealing with isis you know this is really a moment like nixon goes to china obama should go to tehran this is the potential for a solution to a lot of problems right now in iraq if we're going to look at the immediate crisis in iraq which is explode. violently day by day the u.s. can't do much about it on its own it doesn't have that kind of access and that kind of influence anymore with the government in baghdad despite the fact that it's paying the bills billions of dollars to train the so-called national army this big new militia but it doesn't have the kind of access and influence that it needs to get any change to make that government open up and welcome sudanese and kurds and turkmens and christians back into the government to make it a real national government u.s. is failing at that now iran probably can't do that on its own either and they don't have exactly the same interests but together the u.s.

and iran are the two countries with the biggest amount of influence on that government so working together is one possibility for bringing pressure to bear on the government in iraq to stop the kind of sectarian violence that has come to characterize this regime and instead open up the government to make it more to make it broader to make it more representative of all the people in iraq so that's one aspect but the other side of it is if we look back at the crisis in syria which isn't going away because the headlines are now more about iraq you know the headlines have have taken our attention away but the violence in syria is is as bad as it ever was the number of refugees fleeing the number of people being killed on a daily basis is horrifying and if the u.s. and iran were prepared to begin some kind of negotiations over that that's probably the best shot that anybody has at beginning the process of building new negotiations for an end to the war in. syria and finally the u.s.

and iran are negotiating right now over the nuclear crisis if there was a way to move those forward to what they used to call a grand bargain where there would be a resolution of the the nuclear issue there would be a resolution of iran's role in the in the region meaning that the u.s. would acknowledge that iran is a big important country that you. happens to be a neighbor it happens to be next door to iraq next door to syria has a lot more right to be in the region than the us you know and begin a process of normalizing those relations that's a huge challenge to israel it's a huge challenge to saudi arabia and the other gulf states but if the u.s. was prepared to say you know what israel doesn't get to set our foreign policy you know what saudi arabia doesn't and cutter does it if all of those countries were ready then there could be the beginning of real negotiations which then could pull in russia as well and go back to the potential for negotiations that we saw that

was never really able to come to fruition the last time around i mean given that talk ron and d.c. are so at odds with the syria issue i mean is that the only way reconciliation can really happen is if the u.s. says look let's leave all these other people not dictate our foreign policy and really negotiate around where we can absolutely that's why president obama should go to tehran and say to the supreme leader to the ayatollah and me that this is the time for us as leaders of our countries to sit down and talk and not worry about what everybody else in the world thinks about maisie and let's talk about these other state actors and how they're getting involved in iraq crisis i says reportedly one of the richest terrorist groups in the world stole four hundred thirty million dollars from a bank in mosul but we know that they're actually getting funding from a lot of other gulf states as well can you talk about how exactly they're you know it's not official it's not official policy let's say of any of the gulf states not saudi arabia not culture not the u.a.e. not oman not jordan to fund this organization having said that there's all kinds of

reports about the role of a number of princes in saudi arabia various wealthy countries various wealthy people that operate somewhat as individuals but with a wink and nod from the government the reality is a country like saudi arabia is a very tightly controlled society enormous levels of of. watching of the population you know the surveillance is. tight if those governments were really committed to stopping the weapons from going through stopping the money from going through they could do it there is no political will that's the problem it's the same thing and we should not let the u.s. off the hook here the weapons that are going to that organization are mostly u.s. weapons their weapons that the u.s. provided to saudi arabia to cutter to this political force to that political force through decades of over arming the middle east and in that context the u.s. has to take some responsibility for it if the u.s. said saudi arabia for instance who just orchestrated

a sixty billion dollar arms sale last year with the us if you don't stop providing these thugs with these kinds of weapons we're not going to sell you any more weapons that would have some right that would that would be heard in saudi arabia i think let's let's discuss to hypotheticals here if the u.s. actually does decide to do these strategic strikes over iraq airspace and zero international action where this void is kind of left to be filled by the iraqis themselves. this is a disaster this is probably the worst of all possible arenas president obama has said rightly over and over again there is no military solution in syria there is no military solution in iraq this is a political challenge and the iraqis have to solve the political crisis on their own if that's true and i absolutely believe president obama is right if that's true you don't respond to a situation that has no military solution with three hundred more special forces advisors two hundred seventy five more evacuation troops the threat of new missile

strikes a reported one billion dollar arms sale that's the exact opposite of what you need to do so the worst option that we're looking at is a recognition that this is a political challenge that needs an internal political solution and have it be answered by an externally imposed military strike that's going to kill a lot of people and make the situation worse. i think it's important that we not see this as we either go in with bombs and troops or we do not write that's not the the dichotomy in in syria and it should not be in iraq there's a number of things we should be doing number one is to say there are no military solutions we don't send more military weapons number two is a grand bargain with iran number three is really open serious global negotiations with russia through the united nations number four to to impose an immediate arms embargo on all sides because you can't have real negotiations while you're continuing on all sides to flood the region with more weapons and finally put

a lot more money into the question of refugee and humanitarian aid the number of refugees is skyrocketing on a daily basis and the u.s. is to their credit they are already putting more money in than any other single country but it's not nearly enough given the responsibility of the united states for this crisis this crisis is thoroughly rooted in the u.s. invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three given that the us owes an enormous debt and it has not yet begun to make good on that debt thank you so much for breaking on the extremely complex situation going on phyllis bennis really appreciate it thank you. join me again tomorrow when i break the all over again. i know c.n.n. the most n.b.c. news. but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story

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